Panagopoulos

One in two citizens struggles to cover the cost of their healthcare, including medicines, while eight in 10 pay out of their own their pockets for medical tests and visits to doctors, according to the results of a survey carried out by Alco for the Medical Association of Athens (ISA).

Prominent criminal lawyers Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos who were arrested last Friday over their alleged involvement in the so-called Korydallos prison "mafia," were released on bail on Monday evening, after their marathon statements to a prosecutor and an investigative magistrate.

A prosecutor and an investigative magistrate are to decide on Monday night whether to remand or conditionally release prominent Athens lawyer Alexandros Lykourezos and fellow attorney and close associate Theodoros Panagopoulos, who were arrested last Friday over their alleged involvement in the so-called so-called Korydallos prison "mafia."

Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos, two prominent Athens lawyers allegedly embroiled in the so-called Korydallos Prison "mafia," were on Friday given an extension to prepare their defense before an investigating magistrate.

One of the most high-profile criminal lawyers in the country, Alexandros Lykourezos, was arrested on Thursday by officers of the police's counterterrorism unit in connection with the so-called "mafia" said to be operating in the Korydallos maximum-security prison in Athens.

Another lawyer and an associate of Lykourezos, Theodoros Panagopoulos, was also arrested on Friday morning.

Four people were reportedly injured in Rhodes after a group of about 200 individuals stormed into the Rhodes Palace hotel where Greece's biggest private-sector union, GSEE, was expected to hold its 37th conference in the early hours of Thursday and clashed with union members.

Panagiotis Panagopoulos, a leader in Greek coastal shipping, has died, his family announced on Tuesday. He was 83 years old.

Born in Athens in 1935, Panagopoulos studied at Switzerland's Ecole Superieur de Commerce and then went on to work in Genoa and London at the Home Lines cruise company, owned by shipping magnate and family friend Eugenios Eugenides.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (left) speaks to his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Tuesday during a tour of the Acropolis Museum. Pavlopoulos hosted a lunch for the visiting dignitary at the museum.

A kindergarten teacher gestures angrily at a protest rally in downtown Athens on Tuesday. A few dozen protesters scuffled briefly with police as they tried to force their way into Parliament to meet with Education Minister Costas Gavroglou following fruitless talks with Interior Minister Panos Skourletis.